Apple finished its round of platform updates this week with macOS Catalina 10.15.5, which brings new battery health management features and bug fixes to the operating system.
May 26, 2020 The macOS Catalina 10.15.5 update introduces a new Battery Health Management feature for Mac notebooks. Battery Health Management is meant to extend the overall lifespan of a Mac's battery. Open System Preferences, either by clicking on the Apple logo in the menu bar at the top of your screen or in the Applications menu. Click on the Battery option. The new battery section. Mar 26, 2020 Equip your current device with a good battery monitoring app, and you can get detailed information on the state of your battery's health. An iPhone or iPad plugged in to your Mac.
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After four beta periods, Apple on Tuesday released the macOS update with battery health management. The feature is meant to extend battery hardware lifetime by managing how it is charged.
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Battery Health 2 provides detailed stats and health information for your MacBook's battery! Used by millions of Mac users worldwide, it is considered by many as one of the essential free utility apps for your Mac. With Battery Health 2, you can easily see all the important information about your MacBook's battery, such as current charge level. Jan 14, 2019 Mac mini Mac Pro MacBook Air MacBook Pro. I've own iphone 8 plus for only 1 month and the meter already indicates my battery health is at 98%. Ironically my iphone 6 plus (4 year old) is still showing 89%. Newtons Apple Suspended. Mar 12, 2014 22,759 15,218 Jacksonville, Florida. Jan 14, 2019 #8 I lost faith in the battery app after my X.
The new battery management system is a rudimentary version of what is found on iOS. The Energy Saver control panel gains a new, simple dialog box that allows users to toggle the feature on and off. When turned on, the MacBook will detect if and when it spends most of its time on a charger, then charge only as necessary.
By controlling how fast the MacBook charges, and to what percent it reaches when plugged in, the software can elongate the chemical life of the battery. Otherwise the MacBook would charge to 100% as fast as possible every time it was plugged in, causing wear on the battery.
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Other tweaks include FaceTime prominence preference, which can be toggled to suppress enlargement of video tiles when a participant speaks, calibration fine-tuning for Pro Display XDR and a host of bug fixes.
- Fixes an issue that may prevent Reminders from sending notifications for recurring reminders
- Addresses an issue that may prevent password entry on the login screen
- Fixes an issue where System Preferences would continue to show a notification badge even after installing an update
- Resolves an issue where the built-in camera may not be detected when trying to use it after using a video conferencing app
- Addresses an issue for Mac computers with the Apple T2 Security Chip where internal speakers may not appear as a sound output device in Sound preferences
- Fixes a stability issue with uploading and downloading media files from iCloud Photo Library while your Mac is asleep
- Resolves a stability issue when transferring large amounts of data to RAID volumes
- Fixes an issue where the Reduce Motion Accessibility preference did not reduce the speed of animations in a FaceTime group call
Apple's other software platforms iOS and iPadOS were also updated this week to add exposure notification features.
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